Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has no right to veto the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Supreme CouncilÂ’s decision regarding resignations from the assemblies, MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmad said on Wednesday. Talking to Daily Times at the concluding session of a two-day meeting of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Majlis-e-Amla (executive committee), Qazi said the JI would remain firm on the resignations issue and added that those who were retreating from resignations should not do so because it was a unanimous decision.
“The decision on resignations from the assemblies was made in consultation with all component parties of the MMA, but now the JUI-F is trying to veto it,” said Qazi, who also heads the Jamaat-e-Islami. He said the JUI-F should accept the decision and resign from the assemblies.
Qazi said that Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) President Makhdoom Amin Fahim’s statement that he would accept a national government under President General Pervez Musharraf was against the spirit of the Charter of Democracy. He said that Fahim’s statement had “exposed” the PPPP’s “double standards”. “On one hand, the PPPP has signed the CoD to save democracy, but on the other it is accepting a dictatorial regime and backstabbing the democratic forces,” he said.